1 Feb 2014

One and the same

On January 28, the New York Times published an article by Thomas Friedman titled Why Kerry is Scary in which he writes, "Kerry expects and hopes that both Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will declare that despite their reservations about one or another element in the U.S. framework, they will use it as the basis of further negotiations."

On January 31, an article titled Why Israel Fears the Boycott by Omar Barghouti was published in the New York Times.

To underscore the “existential” danger that B.D.S. poses, Israel and its lobby groups often invoke the smear of anti-Semitism, despite the unequivocal, consistent position of the movement against all forms of racism, including anti-Semitism....Arguing that boycotting Israel is intrinsically anti-Semitic is not only false, but it also presumes that Israel and “the Jews” are one and the same. This is as absurd and bigoted as claiming that a boycott of a self-defined Islamic state like Saudi Arabia, say, because of its horrific human rights record, would of necessity be Islamophobic.http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/01/opinion/sunday/why-the-boycott-movement-scares-israel.html

Ann Bayesfsky recently wrote an article posted at FoxNews titled Holocaust Remembrance Day -- has UN learned anything from history?

Last fall the General Assembly’s criticisms of human rights abuse amounted to 19 resolutions against Israel, one each for five other states (including the United States), and zero for the other 187 U.N. members. The only country in the world criticized annually by the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women for violating women’s rights is Israel – for violating Palestinian women’s’ rights. Half of all the emergency sessions of the General Assembly have been on Israel – and not one on the catastrophes of Rwanda, Sudan, or Syria.http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/01/27/holocaust-remembrance-day-has-un-learned-anything-from-history/

6 NYT articles in the past few days portraying Israel in a negative light - 19 resolutions against Israel - but Israel and "the Jews" are not one and the same?

1 comment:

Just finished reading the piece by Avi Weiss published in the NY Times. That should say enough about him; but people are very unaware of his fraudulent claims to being referred to as an Orthodox rabbi. He started a new innovation of 'Open Orthodoxy', which is an oxymoron. The word orthodox cannot be used together with 'open'. He now promotes and ordains 'women rabbis', women cantors, having non-Jewish choirs in his 'shul' and worst of all, promoting gay marriages, etc.; but still has the audacity to call himself an Orthodox Rabbi. He has always been controversial, but this is a chilul beyond words. To take his gripes to the NY Times for a so-called Orthodox rabbi proves that he is not; and besmirching the Israeli Rabbinate, to boot. The Rabbinate gave in because they are part of the government body and had no choice, and, apparently, this so-called 'Orthodox rabbi' has powerful backing and with the help of the secularists in the Israeli leadership are being forced to go along with this mischief. This can be devastating to the integrity of the Jewish people. Marriage, conversions, divorces must be according to Torah true Halacha; otherwise, it can divide the nation into two; one being the true Jewish people and the other a mock nation. The RCA to which he belongs was advised to throw him out of their org. a while back, but did not do so. Hopefully, Moshiach is on his way, fast. This whole episode seems very fishy and is a definite scheme to infiltrate the orthodox world, because, unfortunately, there is already a Reform movement, which at least is obvious about their non-adherence to Torah law and is no secret as to what and who they are. Believe we call these dangerous shenanigans the sitra achra at work!